University of Chicago

 Engineering Center

 

 

Position :  Senior Electronics Engineer

Education:  DeVry Institute of Technology,  ASEE, Eng. Tech. - 1966

 

Current and Pending Projects

Project manager, Eschelle spectrograph (Hildebrand)
CREAM
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Previous Projects

Project Engineer (participated in 17 high-altitude scientific balloon programs (Meyer, Muller, Wiedenbeck)
Design Engineer - balloon-borne cosmic-ray instruments
Lead Engineer - instrument and detector design; Testing runs at 10 various particle accelerator facilities
Design Engineer - ultra high vacuum system; hydrocarbon-free 1X2X2 meter drift camber

Project Responsibilities, Skills, Specialties

Systems Engineer: Data acquisition systems; Digital and analog, PCM downlink systems, fiber optic system, mechanical and software systems design, system troubleshooting.
Electronic Engineer:  Digital and analog circuit design, Testing, troubleshooting; multilayer circuit board layout; Through hole and surface mount; control systems and driver design; communications interface design
Programming: Visual Basic, FORTH, and Assembly language
Vacuum Engineering: UHV system, Cryo pumping, vacuum gauges and automatic foreline control system.

 

Other Skills

Novel network manager, Engineering Center environment (Windows NT cluster and work stations, AutoCAD and other software configurations)

 

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